https://youtu.be/TveFlsaF84g

As you know, New Foundations marked the largest introduction of new features since Worlds Adrift launched into Early Access back in May. As such, we thought it might be handy (or should that be hooky?) to start a new series of tutorial videos.

In this video, Strite will be talking you through making your dream ship through customization, showing your true colours by dying your crafted clothing and cooking up a storm to get the upper hand in certain situations!

A new survey about your game preferences!

This survey will be live only until Tuesday~
🎮💖🎮

https://bossastudios.typeform.com/to/t7Pk4X

Greetings Travellers,

It's getting dark early... How rude. And now the NEWS!



Nominations are now CLOSED.

A panel of Bossians (including Kirk and myself) will do a screening of all submitted candidates to make sure they fit the criteria listed previously: which includes being of good character and not having recent previous offences/disciplinary actions against your account(s).

Final 10 candidates will be selected from the remaining pool on stream.



We are back with EPISODE 13 the Worlds Adrift Dev podcast, with Messy Moster, Malford the Magnificent, and Jolly Julia!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYtX81zc4nU&t=

Topics we discuss:

• Feature Lock for 29
• Player Damage
• Less Physics Damage
• Shortbread stories
• Roadmap ‘Read More’
• Community Questions

Want us to answer your questions? Comment below and we will pick a few awesome ones to ask our next guest(s)!

We are now on iTunes and Spotify, so if you're enjoying the podcast give us a review to help us get heard!

Spotify: Clicky HERE!

iTunes: Clicky HERE!

Chat to us on Discord: discord.gg/worldsadrift

Like us on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/worldsadrift/
Follow us on Twitter:
@WorldsAdrift

Luke - @eternz
Malford - @Malford_
Julia - @lady_jeanette



https://www.twitch.tv/videos/336229036
Q&A with the Technical Artist 🎨🎨🎨 from BossaStudios



All for Update 29! Wooooo!

• Feature locking for Update 29 - Entire Team
• Steam inventory and holidays goodies code support.
• Maintenance side refactoring, allowing QA and Live builds to sharing the same config settings.
• Made tools to make the on-call server team life easier.
• Implemented dye mod to have procedurally colored icon.
• Added "Cooling Rate" to crafting and scanning UI.
• Added audio for entering a new Biome.
• Implemented Andy's tutorial highlight system mentioned last week.

THIS ONE

• Bugfixing.
• Multi objective quest support for improving onboarding experience.
• Fixing the rest server, icons for ciphers, discord integration, bugs.
• Working on a tool to view ship storage inventories without needing to be in game.
• Still unjerking high speed ships.
• Fixed jerky cannon motion when on a rotating ship.
• Fixed decks having the wrong shape and flickering.
• Fixed infinite loading screen due to being unable to connect to time server
• Logic server optimisations.
• Server-side performance improvements.
• QA - Oh lordy we breaking things.

Happy Weekending, folks!

See you in the skies,

Julia + W.A. Team

What is this? An “artist”? A “technical”?

Our guest, Andy acts as a bridge between the Artists and Programmers working on a game, making all the pretty things – POSSIBLE. Prepare your questions, Travellers!

www.twitch.tv/bossastudios

TODAY, 15th November 5PM GMT / 6PM CET / 12PM EST/ 9 AM PST

If you can’t attend, comment below and we shall answer 🙂

Greetings Wanderers of the vast and unknowable universe,

We released two hot fixes, how are you?



For those of you who missed the initial post you may find it here, but in a nutshell - the Council is a community focus group helping us get concise feedback across the board as we make decisions in development and represent community sentiment. You want to build a bigger, better community for yourself and your friends!

READ MORE HERE

Nomination response deadline is the 16th of November.

Te reiterate, a panel of Bossians will do an initial screening of all candidates. Final 10 candidates will be selected at random on stream.
We are back with EPISODE 12 the Worlds Adrift Dev podcast, with Malford the Magnificent, LegendAry Luke and Jolly Julia!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtIMnc7oGxQ

Topics we discuss:

• Community Cloud Council - restructure, clarifying selection process.
• Hotfixes this week: A duping exploit relying on latency has been fixed. / Performed an optimisation on ships to improve server performance.
• Island Creator Winner
• Answering Community Questions

Want us to answer your questions? Comment below and we will pick a few awesome ones to ask our next guest(s)!

We are now on iTunes and Spotify, so if you're enjoying the podcast give us a review to help us get heard!

Spotify: Clicky HERE!

iTunes: Clicky HERE!

Chat to us on Discord: discord.gg/worldsadrift

Like us on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/worldsadrift/
Follow us on Twitter:
@WorldsAdrift

Luke - @eternz
Malford - @Malford_
Julia - @lady_jeanette



https://www.twitch.tv/videos/332865006

• Client optimisations are in, so lets see how much it helped and what I now have to fix ;) - Andy
• Also this... Started work on a system to highlight things for tutorial and other such things - Andy

• Overheating and Steam inventory integration for Stash items - Murillo
• New lamp and bugfixing - Jack
• Ship building tutorial - Tamas
• Voice chat authentication and bugs - Ben
• Fixed deployment tag (making doing maintenance easier) - Kexin
• Cipher, split stack, customization feature/bug fixes - Kexin
• Cipher balancing - Luke
• Adding new metals - Luke
• Setting up ship paint and clothing dye schematics and what parts can be painted - Luke
• Designing better player interaction options - Luke
• All the new hotness - Moster (new things)
• New clothes - Rebecca
• New cooking stuffs! - Malford
• Discord Rich Presence, REST server issues, cipher icons - Maurizio
• Tutorial improvements - Allan
• Optimising server performance. Unjerking ships. - Dave

Happy Weekending, folks!

See you in the skies,

Julia + W.A. Team

We're doing something experimental tonight...

Dev Moster and Community Traveller Zatios are experimenting with Worlds Adrift Science! 🤓

Can you fly a ship without a Skycore?! 🚀 What about race it?! 😨

Find out TONIGHT @ 7PM GMT / 2PM EST / 11PM PST
https://www.twitch.tv/bossastudios

SERVERS WILL BE GOING INTO UNSCHEDULED MAINTENANCE AT 1.30PM GMT (that's in ~30 minutes).

Greetings Wanderers of the vast and unknowable universe,

As many of you have been buzzing about this, the new CCC selection is upon us.

For those of you who missed the initial post you may find it here, but in a nutshell - the Council is a community focus group helping us get concise feedback across the board as we make decisions in development and represent and represent community sentiment. You want to build a bigger, better community for yourself and your friends!

We have looked into various online voting platforms and it’s looking like with enough dedication one can easily cheat the system.

The CCC members sign NDAs, and Herb and the devs can contact them in regards to questions they have. Examples from the last CCC sessions: PvE server, feature implementations, player-facing bug prioritisation. This means you have to be an active player.

Sometimes Herb will ask “should we do a thing?”, sometimes tell you “hey, we’re doing a thing.” and we will have a short period of very passionate debate from some CCC representatives, better preparing us for bringing the new changes to the wider community, and knowing what problems to anticipate.

Basic Requirements:

• 60+ hours of gameplay
• Of good community character regardless of in-game playstyle
• Very well familiarized with game mechanics and lore
• Understanding of fellow player needs and desires when it comes to the game
• All in-game playstyles are welcome
• No recent in-game bans

Good to have:

• If you are already a part of the Feedback/Playtest channels on discord ran by Tania is certainly a huge bonus
• Previous game community council experience
• Managing Worlds Adrift related content is a huge bonus (e.g.: fan pages, videos, streams, podcasts, etc.)

What will be required of a CCC member:

• Council members will have to sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement
• Continue to play the game frequently and represent the community sentiment
• Be comfortable voicing their opinions at Community Panel meetings/calls in a professional manner
• Helpful to new players out and hopefully in-game (unless provoked)

Email me on http://mailto:Community@bossastudios.com or respond to this thread with nominations. Response deadline is the 16th of November.

A panel of Bossians will do an initial screening of all candidates. Final 10 candidates will be selected at random on stream.

We are back with EPISODE 11 the Worlds Adrift Dev podcast, with Malford, Low Energy Moster and Julia!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bqs5nj5vZWs

Topics we discuss:

• Update 29 feature lock pending
• Stack splitting, and the work going on right now!
• Halloween stuff - Orange dye, Pumpkins, Jack-o-Lantern's, Pumpkin Spice Curry, Witch's Brew and Horns of Olk
• Community Cloud Council - restructure and voting

Want us to answer your questions? Comment below and we will pick a few awesome ones to ask our next guest(s)!

We are now on iTunes and Spotify, so if you're enjoying the podcast give us a review to help us get heard!

Spotify: Clicky HERE!

iTunes: Clicky HERE!

Chat to us on Discord: discord.gg/worldsadrift

Like us on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/worldsadrift/
Follow us on Twitter:
@WorldsAdrift

Moster - @fatt_mo
Malford - @Malford_
Julia - @lady_jeanette


https://www.twitch.tv/videos/330209148

Herb getting rapidfire questions. It's good times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aECijGshCvQ

• Island shader optimisations, continued work on distant island impostors - Andy
• Crafting customization system - Kexin
• Cipher fixes - Kexin
• Overheating rehaul - Murillo
• Adding ship paint and adjusting dyed cloth schematics - Luke
• Rebalanced cannon damage against players - Luke
• Fixed wooden ailerons appearing on metal wings - Luke
• Redesign scanner and metal deposits - Luke
• Loom and post-Haven tutorial stuff - Tamas
• Zone transition text when entering a new biome - Tamas
• Fixed a bug with alliance leader being blocked after changing public/officers notes - Anastasiia
• Preview bonuses stats for crafting station depending on materials player uses for selected schematic - Anastasiia
• More VOIP features and fixes - Shane
• New recipes - Malford
• Weird drinks - Malford
• Onboarding improvements - Allan
• Finished the art for the Marauder horn - Rebecca

Happy Weekending, folks!

See you in the skies,

Julia + W.A. Team

Reminder, that as it's Halloween, we want you to use our free Island Creator tool to create an island based on one of the following spooky themes:

- House on the Haunted Hill
- Purgatory
- The Abandoned Carnival

To enter, simply drop a link to your island in the comments below by midnight, 1st November.

The winning island (as judged by our panel of experts!), not only will it be added to the world for thousands to discover, but will be lovingly transformed into a wall-worthy watercolour by our eminent in-house artist, Dan Lish, for you to keep!
Plus, we’ll also present the winning entry, as well as two runner-ups, with one of our new Masks of Olk schematics!

Check out some of the terrific submissions so far!

Greetings Travellers, 

WE LAUNCHED 28! SPOOPY PUMPKIN PATCH! Have you read the Patchnotes?
We're back with EPISODE 10 of the Worlds Adrift Dev Podcast with Malford, Moster and Julia!

https://youtu.be/n835F2voGqM

Topics we discuss:

• Laggy McLagface
• Halloweenies
• Update 28
• And sorta Update 29
• User questions

Want us to answer your questions? Comment below and we will pick a few awesome ones to ask our next guest(s)!

We are now on iTunes and Spotify, so if you're enjoying the podcast give us a review to help us get heard!

Spotify: Clicky HERE!

iTunes: Clicky HERE!
As you know, New Foundations marked the largest introduction of new features since Worlds Adrift launched into Early Access back in May. As such, we thought (Well, Strite is the daddy of this one) it might be handy (or should that be hooky?) to start a new series of tutorial videos. To kick things off, we’re discussing the differences between the PvP and PvE servers, the deadly new threats you’ll encounter on islands, and the measures we’ve introduced to counter griefing! 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAU5JUi2ba0
Original post: HERE

Using the free Worlds Adrift Island Creator tool (shameless plug: each and every one of the 300 gorgeously intricate islands that make up the world of Foundation was made by a member of the community), we want you to create a Halloween-themed island, based on one of the following (if not all three!) themes…

 

1. House on the Haunted Hill

2. Purgatory

3. The Abandoned Carnival

 

But sky pirate that you are, what about that glittery prize we hear ye’ ask? Well… all entries will be reviewed by our illustrious production team, who’ll not only be looking for flair and creativity, but something that would thematically fit within Worlds Adrift. As well as being added to the world, the winning island will be lovingly transformed into a wall-worthy watercolour by our eminent in-house artist, Dan Lish, for you to keep! Plus, we’ll also present the winning entry, as well as two runner-ups, with one of the aforementioned (and in very much limited supply!) goat masks.

• More visual optimisations, specifically Occlusion Culling and Runtime Impostor Rendering - Trying to make the islands cheaper to render basically, jury's out on the results and the technical issues that'll follow - Andy
• Making the Marauder ship horn and concepting future clothing items - Rebecca
• Blight related fixes, looking into onboarding and tutorial improvements - Allan
• Concepting outfits, finishing off different colouring/lighting for Remnants and Badlands biomes, starting on NEW THING - Jack
• Memory leaks and VOIP for update 29 - Shane
• Stack splitting - John
• Duping bug - Kexin
• Bug fixes with player inventory - Anastasiia
• Various bug fixes related to player crafting - Anastasiia
• fixing marauder loot etc - Luke
• Progression revamp - Luke
• Recording and editing the PVP/PVE video - Dean
• Post-Haven on-boarding, Overheat hand-off, new material finalization, Quest system design - Moster
• Made ships 'smooth' over server boundaries, or at least as smooth as they can ever be due to the laws of computing and mathematics and stuff. Now it's time to start testing all the edge cases (of which there are many) before handing it over to QA - Dave
• We broke the game - QA
• General Bugfixing - Tamas (previously Lieutenant general)
• Trying to wrap up crew beacon fix (still) and digging into frame rate and latency analytics - Semi
• Attempted to bugfix (but only manage to better bugobserve) servers being d***s and General Helpfulness - Maurizio ("Helped people with their bugs, and worked on some & RandomRespawn doesn't respawn you in the same island anymore")
• Refactoring random expensive server operations everywhere - Murillo
• Checking Steam Inventory API - Murillo
• Being mini Sylvain - Murillo
• Working on validating my ship part optimisations actually improves performance - Murillo

Have a spooktastic weekend, and we will see you in the skies :D

Julia & WA Team